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Object description

whole: the image is positioned in the upper two-thirds, set against a black background. The title is integrated and placed
in the lower half, in black outlined white, and in grey. The text is separate and placed in the lower quarter, in black and in white, set
against a grey background.
image: a photographic portrait of a woman, with her face partially cast in a red shadow from the letters 'VD'.
text: HENRION
VD
VD
- a shadow on happiness
clean living is the real safeguard
For those who are infected, or think that they may be, advice and treatment are free and confidential at any V.D. Clinic
Exhibited at the request of the Ministry of Health and the Department of Health for Scotland
THE CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH EDUCATION
THE SCOTTISH COUNCIL FOR HEALTH EDUCATION
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY FLEMINGS, LEICESTER.
51-840

Physical description

51-840.
A larger version was also produced (see PST 14100).
Produced as part of a series of posters (see PST 3681, PST 3688, PST 3690, PST 14094, PST 14096).

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